It is with great pleasure that we can announce that Jay, Year 12, has won the prestigious2019 Karl Jenkins Composition awardwith his piece titled “West Lake Pavillion”.
The Jenkins award is open to participating schools in the“International Schools Choral Music Society.” Jay's piece will be performed by the combined ISCMS choir and orchestra at the gala concert in the Shanghai Symphony Concert hall on the 23rdof February.
Jay wrote the following as a background to his composition:
“The West Lake in Hangzhou is renowned as one of the most beautiful natural lakes in China, with countless poems reciting its beauty across the ages.The lyrics in this piece are inspired by a poem by Liu Yong, apoet from the Song dynasty, as he was traveling around the country."Dong Nan Xing Sheng" literally means " The South-East (where Hangzhou is
located) is a prime location," and Liu Yong elaborates on this by commenting on the splendor and beauty of both the city and the natural scenery.
The melismas in the main pentatonic melody in the piece resembles melodies of song stressesin the Song Dynasty, whom Liu Yong originally wrote this poem for. Throughout the piece,melodies are echoed across all four vocal registers, resembling almost a canonical competition between four voices.”The judging panel highly praised Jay’s entry, writing:“It shows a good sense of musical structure, its material is apt for its expressive purposes, and its melodic and harmonic ideas are distinctive"
We congratulate Jay for his amazing achievement and look forward to hearing his piece.
The programme will also include the China Premier of“ 5 Spirituals from a Child of our Time”by Sir Michael Tippett and the “Young PersonsGuide to the Orchestra”by Benjamin Britten. We have 16 students from Dulwich Pudong taking part in this year’s festival which promises to be an amazing experience.
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